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NHS culture change

‘We need a local focus to our health services to deliver care to patients in an accountable and sensitive manner’

February 1 2012, 12:01am, The Times

Sir, It is essential that we proceed with the Government’s Health Bill to empower clinicians and patients to make decisions about their healthcare. To do this we must address the top down structures and functions of the NHS, which stifle innovation. In a time of continuing financial stringency, we need a local focus to our health services to deliver care to patients in an accountable and sensitive manner. This will lead to significant cost savings, improvements in patient care and modernised services. Doing nothing and hoping that we can achieve this in a failed system is unworkable.

As organisations representing frontline GPs and practices, it is our duty to ensure that the changes succeed in modernising the form and culture of the NHS, where decisions…

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